On Monday 03 December 2001 02:15 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:17:41AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:28:40PM +1300, Michael Jager > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > How do you people install this? I have tried using potato floppies then > > > changing apt sources, and downloading woody floppies and then I get a > > > malformed release file error? > > > > You're apparently having problems with a program or system configuration > > issue, but you've provided far from enough information to be able to > > adequately address or resolve the issue. > > Not true, as it happens, if you've been following debian-boot, in which > case the words "malformed release file" raise a big red flag. There's a > bug currently filed against boot-floppies about this (#121724). I'm not > a boot guru, but my impression from the various threads about this is > that there's a bug in debootstrap whereby, if you give it the wrong URL > for the archive - perhaps a broken mirror - on the first attempt, it'll > never redownload it. > > Unfortunately the only way to work around this at the moment, as far as > I know, is to get the archive URL right on the first attempt. Making > sure that $URL/dists/woody/Release exists before you do the installation > is a good start. If you get it wrong you have to start again and > reformat the filesystem when the installer offers that to you. Naturally > I hope and imagine that this'll be fixed before release. > > This could all be wrong, incidentally: I'm just collating what I've > heard and passing it on. If it turns out to be something else, please > follow up so that the list archives aren't too misleading. hello, it seems you are right; I got it wrong first time, and the only thing that resolved the issue was starting again (along with a reformat)
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